When the Milwaukee Bucks showed up for training camp on Sunday, Khris Middleton presented his teammate Giannis Antetokounmpo with a gift for his 26th birthday: a pen. Antetokounmpo did not understand its significance at first.
“Then I was thinking about it, and I realized he was wanting me to sign the contract,” he said.
Antetokounmpo got the joke. He thought it was funny. But as more teammates arrived and they continued to bestow him with pens, he apparently stopped laughing.
“It got a little bit old,” he said. “I’ve got 20 pens here in my locker.